Acting On Opportunity

A Driving Force In Venture Capital

About Centripetal

Centripetal Capital Partners, LLC. is a multi-stage venture capital fund with an innovative fund structure that provides greater flexibility and opportunity for limited partners than a traditional fund.

Centripetal has an opportunistic growth capital investment approach and seeks investments in companies at various stages (seed stage, early stage, growth stage, late stage) across a wide range of industries, and occasionally makes acquisitions.

Centripetal’s Team, Affiliates and Investing Members are experienced entrepreneurs, financiers, executives and private investors with proven track records of success.

The Centripetal Force

Pronounciation: cen·trip·e·tal. It's not centri-petal, we're not a flower company!

The Centripetal Force (Def): Latin for the "center seeking" force. The Centripetal Force is the radial force needed to create acceleration towards the center, counteracting straight line motion.

Mission: As an investment fund we seek to generate the Centripetal Force by bringing together: Expert people, unique opportunities, and inflection point capital. When combined, we help turn corporate inertia into sustainable growth, increasing future value.

Investment Criteria

Investment Size: $1-$3 million per round, up to $7-10 milion over the life of a company. $5-10 million per acquistion.

Lead Investor: Centripetal is typically the lead investor, but will co-invest in larger transactions and with other venture funds, seed funds, and angels

Traction: We largely target companies where the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) = 100% complete and market tested, though occtionally make exceptions. The companies have ideally generated first revenues, proven the basic business model, or have verifable traction using key performance based metrics.

Investment Approach

Inflection Point Capital: Target companies well positioned for growth and where the application of capital has the potential for above average returns. Focus is on early stage and growth stage companies, but generally not start-ups or turnarounds.

Investments Per Year: Centripetal seeks to make 3-5 investments per year

Jeff Brodlieb

Over 30 years experience developing, implementing and financing growth and turnaround strategies for Fortune 100’s to small and medium sized enterprises

GE Capital, Vice President of Strategic Transactions; originated and structured over $500 million of transactions; with GE-backed Allegiance Capital completed turnaround buyouts totaling $144 million, currently generating annual income over $30 million

Boston Consulting Group and Michael Allen Company: Consultant working across industries from telecommunications to consumer services

Hands-on management and start-up experience; launched Time Inc.’s first subscription television company

PORTFOLIO

Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC.

AFT is the creator of patented trading methodologies, most notably the S&P DTI (Diversified Trends Indicator). Its products are used as the basis for investment funds and structured financial products by leading institutions.

Pet Paradise (American Pet Resorts)

Pet Paradise (American Pet Resorts) is an established operator of high quality, full service pet hotels at airport and suburban locations in the South. The company, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, has developed and continues to refine a high quality, service oriented pet boarding facilities. Their strategy is to rollout initial sites near airports throughout the Southeast U.S. and other select urban and suburban locations in the Southeast. American Pet Resorts currently operates 18 locations throughout the United States.

Choice Pet Supply

Choice Pet Supply offers an outstanding selection of superior pet products, specializing in natural, organic and holistic foods for dogs and cats, as well as small animals. The carefully chosen products combined with a staff expertly trained to assist customers with their selections, discuss their pet’s nutritional needs, and provide the information required to make the best choices for their pet’s health and happiness, set Choice Pet apart from other pet suppliers. Choice Pet actively supports community rescue and animal welfare groups, and Choice Pet’s “Rescue Me” program provides ongoing support to adoption groups and new pet parents. Currently, there are 13 Choice Pet locations in the Connecticut and New York area, and steadily expanding in the Northeast.

Cytogel Pharma, LLC.

Cytogel Pharma, LLC. is an early stage, innovative bio-pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of high value analgesic product candidates and broadly useful polymer and hydrogel drug delivery platform technologies. Cytogel’s products individually represent significant medical advances for the future, each could have significant market potential.

Iris Wireless

Iris Wireless is a leading provider of global messaging solutions for wireless operators. Iris Wireless operates a next-generation messaging network that manages the inter-operator exchange of wireless data traffic between mobile operators around the world. It also develops and provides value added services for regular use by mobile customers.

Juniper Content

Juniper Content provides television programming services through ¡Sorpresa! the nation’s first children’s cable television network broadcast exclusively in Spanish. (Sold to Olypusat)

Medical Asset Fund III

Medical Asset Fund III is the third medical equipment leasing/financing fund managed by Health Capital, Inc. It specializes in financing high quality equipment with important and frequent usage in primarily the cardiology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, radiology, and urology sectors of the medical marketplace. It targets high teen net cash on cash returns.

OfficePower, LLC.

OfficePower, LLC. provides distributive energy to large office buildings in major markets, enabling buildings to produce a portion of their power needs. Landlords reduce their reliance on public utilities and the increasingly fragile power grid and as a result increase the value of their property.

Optiwind

Optiwind is pioneering a new market in wind energy, placing medium sized wind turbines right where they’re needed most – on site at schools, businesses and government locations. Optiwind has developed an innovative suite of technologies that accelerate existing wind speeds, reduce installation and maintenance costs, and bring turbine sizes in line with what suburban and urban communities will accept.

ORBCOMM

ORBCOMM is a satellite data communications company that provides innovative satellite communication services at down to earth prices. Using a constellation of company-owned Low-Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites to provide cost-effective, global tracking, monitoring and messaging capabilities to a wide variety of industries, including trucking, marine, aviation, automotive, heavy equipment and utilities. (IPO December 2006)

Pet Paradise Releases New Video About Its Services

Y-Hack 2013 | Yale University Hackathon

Nov 8-9th

Centripetal is proud to be sponsoring Y-Hack.com, what could end up being the largest hackathon on a college campus in the US, bringing together programmers from around the country to hack for 24 hrs! Learn more: Y-Hack.com

The Connecticut Innovation Summit

Nov 7, 2013

The largest CT Venture Capital Event of the year, showcasing the top 75 companies in CT. Event Details: Click Here

Pet Paradise Featured on NBC News: Can't take your pet on the plane? Board him at the airport!